The MRI 2.2 garbage collector has gaines some significant improvements over its predecessors. There is now much more to tune and optimize for. The default settings are rarely optimal for an app, however, and gaining knowledge of the settings is a pita. [more inside]

The airbrussh gem is a replacement log formatter for SSHKit that makes your Capistrano output much easier on the eyes. Just add it to your Capfile and enjoy concise, useful log output that is easy to read. Watch an animated GIF demo.

We often talk about extracting service objects in the Ruby community. Very often it’s in the context of Rails apps. However, the technique is very good in any situation where you deal with a framework (“they call you”). [more inside]